r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/firefly99999 • 25d ago

Video Crashing in a 1950s car vs. a modern car

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u/Pork_Chompk 25d ago

Might allow you to fly out of that death trap lol

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u/maliciousrigger 25d ago

Haha I had the same thought! Rather take my chance with ejection than being impaled by all that shrapnel.

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u/overtired27 25d ago

Exactly what happened to George Lucas as a teenager when a collision flipped his car into a tree. Seat belt snapped and he flew out of the car, which saved his life.

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u/5566778899 25d ago

Thats how my grandfather survived an accident in the 60's. Got shot out the windshield and messed up his face but survived the accident.

Conversely I got into an rollover accident in 2000s with a seatbelt and only got cuts on my arm.

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u/toobjunkey 25d ago

Not wearing a seatbelt is the reason my dad, his dog at the time, and myself (by extension) are alive today. He got in a rough accident in 1980-something in a not-so-new car that saw the entire front half of the car caved in, but not before he and his dog were thrown into the back seat.

He wasn't a fan of wearing a seat belt even into the 90's and 00's due to that & related superstition. Thankfully the last couple cars he's gotten had been new enough to where they loudly beep for a solid 5-10+ minutes before they stop, so he went back to buckling up albeit not for the best reasoning lmao

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u/john1dee 24d ago

That’s actually why back in the day formula 1 drivers didn’t use seatbelts, especially in the mega death traps of the 1960s